Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Il sogno fasullo
Memorie di un raffinato migrante senegalese in Italia
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 5, 2016
“L’errore enorme che ho fatto venendo qui è aver pensato che qui ci fosse il Paradiso, che potessi guadagnare soldi, diventare ricco. Ho mollato tutto per venire in Europa, ma non era affatto come pensavo e come mi avevano fatto credere. È stata un’esperienza fondamentale, ora ho capito, e...
Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights
Life Outside the Pale of the Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Most Western liberal democracies are parties to the United Nations Refugees Convention and all are committed to the recognition of basic human rights, but they also spend billions fortifying their borders, detaining unauthorised immigrants, and policing migration. Meanwhile, public debate over the...
by DIXION RWAKASYAGURI
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
Learn How You Too Can Live the American Dream — You Too Can Live The Dream by Dixion Rwakasyaguri
Is the American Dream still achievable today? For those of you striving to realize your true potential and live your life to the fullest, this Dream can seem elusive. Full of practical instruction...
African Transnational Diasporas
Fractured Communities and Plural Identities of Zimbabweans in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Pasura proposes a framework for understanding African diasporas as core, epistemic, dormant and silent diasporas. The book explores the origin, formation and performance of the Zimbabwean transnational diaspora in Britain and examines how the diaspora is constituted in the hostland and how it maintains connections with the homeland.
In Erdogans Visier
Warum er die Deutschtürken radikalisieren will und was das für uns bedeutet
Language: German
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Spätestens seit dem gescheiterten Militärputsch vergeht kaum ein Tag ohne besorgniserregende Meldungen aus Ankara. Unverhohlen baut der türkische Präsident Erdogan seine Machtstellung immer weiter aus. Die Instrumentalisierung des Islam, Massenverhaftungen oder Eingriffe in die Pressefreiheit...
Following the Ball
The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949–1975
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal’s African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in 1975....
Migration, Transnationalism and Catholicism
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
This book is the first to analyze the impacts of migration and transnationalism on global Catholicism. It explores how migration and transnationalism are producing diverse spaces and encounters that are moulding the Roman Catholic Church as institution and parish, pilgrimage and network, community...
by Maria Laurino
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This richly researched, beautifully illustrated volume illuminates an important, overlooked part of American history.
From extensive archival materials and interviews with well-known Italian Americans, Maria Laurino strips away stereotypes and nostalgia to tell the complicated, centuries-long...
by Levon Ter-Petrossian
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This project addresses recurring questions about Armenian-Turkish relations, the legacy of the Armenian genocide of 1915, and relations between the Armenian diaspora and the Republic of Armenia. Additionally, it discusses the ongoing conflict with Azerbaijan, and the Armenian government’s handling of the commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Armenian genocide.
Border Lampedusa
Subjectivity, Visibility and Memory in Stories of Sea and Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
This book analyses the European border at Lampedusa as a metaphor for visible and invisible powers that impinge on relations between Europe and Africa/Asia. Taking an interdisciplinary approach (political, social, cultural, economic and artistic), it explores the island as a place where social relations...
Identity, Ideology and Positioning in Discourses of Lifestyle Migration
The British in the Ariège
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This book uniquely integrates discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine representations of the self and other within lifestyle migration. With a focus on British migrants living in the Ariège, south-west France, the study identifies common positioning strategies to demonstrate links...
Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts
Art, Migrations, Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
The extraordinary Watts Towers were created over the course of three decades by a determined, single-minded artist, Sabato Rodia, a highly remarkable Italian immigrant laborer who wanted to do “something big.” Now a National Historic Landmark and internationally renowned destination, the Watts...
Live and Work in Dubai
Comprehensive, Up-to-date, Practical Information About Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Ostentatious, glam, materialistic, and tax free, Dubai is one of the most popular overseas locations for expatriate professionals. But although Dubai's population is made up of 75% expats compared to 25% locals, there is still an old town, away from the artificial world of glass skyscrapers shooting...
by Jean Goodwin Messinger
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
These are the stories of ordinary German civilians who survived the horrors of war and eventually immigrated to Colorado.For example: "During the night between one and four o'clock the police would drive through the town and pick up men. They would knock on the door and say that the man...